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In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]
1971Todd Blackadder, New Zealand rugby player and coach[†]
Todd Blackadder is a retired New Zealand rugby union player and professional rugby coach. He played 12 tests for the All Blacks, and had 14 appearances as captain. Blackadder captained the Crusaders to three Super Rugby titles during his time with the franchise. He also won two National Provincial Championship titles with Canterbury. Blackadder coached the Crusaders for nine seasons from 2009 to 2016.
1971Masashi Hamauzu, Japanese pianist and composer[†]
Masashi Hamauzu is a Japanese composer, pianist, and lyricist. Hamauzu, who was employed at Square Enix from 1996 to 2010, was best known during that time for his work on the Final Fantasy and SaGa video game series. Born into a musical family in Germany, Hamauzu was raised in Japan. He became interested in music while in kindergarten, and took piano lessons from his parents.
1971Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer and manager[†]
Edward Henrik Larsson is a Swedish professional football coach and former player who played many times for the Swedish national team. A striker, Larsson began his career with Högaborgs BK. In 1992, he moved to Helsingborg IF where in his first campaign he helped the club win promotion to Allsvenskan after 24 seasons. He moved to Feyenoord in November 1993, staying for four years before leaving in 1997 to join Scottish Premiership club Celtic and enjoying great success there. During his time in the Dutch Eredivisie, he won two KNVB Cups with Feyenoord. He later played for Barcelona, earning the Spanish title twice and the Champions League before returning to Helsingborg. He ended his career with a loan spell at Manchester United, with whom he won the English Premier League in 2006–07.
1971Dominika Peczynski, Swedish singer and television host[†]
Dominika Peczynski is a Polish-Swedish singer, model and television host.
1971Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)[†]
Giorgos or George Seferis, the pen name of Georgios Seferiadis, was a Greek poet and diplomat. He was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate.
1971James Westerfield, American actor (born 1913)[†]
James A. Westerfield was an American character actor of stage, film, and television.
1971Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.[†]
Hurricane Irene–Olivia was the first actively tracked tropical cyclone to move into the eastern Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic basin. It originated as a tropical depression on September 11, 1971, in the tropical Atlantic. The cyclone tracked nearly due westward at a low latitude, passing through the southern Windward Islands and later over northern South America. In the southwest Caribbean Sea, it intensified to a tropical storm and later a hurricane. Irene made landfall on southeastern Nicaragua on September 19, and maintained its circulation as it crossed the low-lying terrain of the country. Restrengthening after reaching the Pacific, Irene was renamed Hurricane Olivia, which ultimately attained peak winds of 115 mph (185 km/h). Olivia weakened significantly before moving ashore on the Baja California Peninsula on September 30; the next day it dissipated.
thousands of Jews converge at Wailing Wall, Jerusalem, to mark New Yr; illus
Army drops Kill!Kill! as bayonet drill cry; drill illus; some recruit training bases have eliminated bayonet training altogether
Thant, in final annual rept, pleads that UN members give to UN under his successor more power than it has been able to wield under him; illus; says he has never been so convinced as now of usefulness, potential and absolute necessity of UN; warns that life would not be safe without UN and concept of internationalism
In National Football League openers yesterday, the Giants upset the Packers, 42‐40, in Green Bay and the Jets lost, 22.0, to the Colts in Baltimore. (Details, Page 33.)
Brandt says that Brezhnev knows that only solution to possibility of mutually balanced forces lies in dealing with NATO and not individual members; says USSR realizes that Eur security conf cannot be held without US; notes that troop reductions must include Eur natl forces as well as those of foreign powers
NY Times survey finds that 25 million new votert age 18‐24 have pol potential to change almost entire make‐up of Cong in '72 election; group consists of age 18‐20 added by 26th Amendment and age 20‐24 who were too young to vote in '68; pol potential seen to depend on success of regis drives, voter turnout in '72 and whether state permits student to vote from campus or home address; 25 states already permit school address regis and more expected due to ct challenges; statisticians see only 1/2 of new young eligibles voting with 2/3 of these voting Dem; illus of regis, Mich Univ, Ann Arbor
extensive Soviet mil presence in Egypt arouses concern over Soviet and US mil participation if fighting resumes; USSR seen not wanting and not planning large direct combat role but ad hoc decisions rather than long‐range plans seen drawing it into fighting; history of increasing Soviet mil role in Egypt cited; possible action that US would take if USSR became actively involved discussed; analysts, barring breakthrough in talks, view preparations underway for possible resumption of hostilities with unpredictable consequences
E Caldwell on life of G Jackson
NYC Deputy Med Examiner Dr M Baden and Westchester County Med Examiner Dr H Siegel, both of who reexamined bodies of 9 hostages killed at Attica, verify findings of Dr Edland that all had died of gunshot wounds; Baden also says that he re‐examined 30 inmates found dead after prison had been recaptured and that 3 of inmates had died from knife wounds; details; other developments include Legal Aid Soc and ACLU‐NY unit attys charging that inmates are being awakened in middle of night for interrogation and Sen Dunne saying that given inmates 'intransigence' over unacceptable demands, he saw no alternative to storming of prison
NY Times survey finds that Comr Murphy's drive against corruption and inefficiency has deeply affected attitudes of policemen and daily work of dept; says that policemen are so apprehensive about being caught that nearly all forms of corruption appear to have decreased noticeably
Nearly 100,000 of the 600,000 Koreans estimated to be in Japan have chosen repatriation to N Korea even though majority of repatriates were born in S Korea or are of S Korean ancestry; lines of loyalty appear to be econ rather than pol; repatriation has been carried out, with some interruptions, since '59 under an accord between Japanese and N Korean Red Cross; N Korean repatriation ship, reptdly ordered by Premier Kim Il Sung, arrives in Niigata, Japan, once a mo to call for repatriates; Koreans in Japan claim they are subject to discrimination and exploitation especially since they are not permitted to return once they go to N Korea; some repatriates comment; Kim Il Sung illus
S Vietnamese troops, backed by US arty and planes, reptdly kill 40 Vietcong in U Minh Forest battle